A Balancing Act : Rhetorical Strategies and Cultural Precarity
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A Balancing Act : Rhetorical Strategies and Cultural Precarity in Indigenous Non-fiction

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina

Basic information

Original name

A Balancing Act : Rhetorical Strategies and Cultural Precarity in Indigenous Non-fiction

Authors

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

IV International Research Workshop (VULNERA PROJECT), 21-22 June, 2018, Universidad de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2018

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Spain

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00105671

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Indigenous non-fiction; precarity; vulnerability; Thomson Highway; Eden Robinson; Joseph Boyden

Abstract

V originále

Three prominent Indigenous fiction writers were recently invited to present a talk in the Henry Kreisel lecture series organized by the University of Alberta: namely, they were Joseph Boyden in 2007, Eden Robinson in 2010 and Thomson Highway in 2014. Each of them opted for a different rhetorical strategy to engage cross-cultural audiences and address a variety of issues related to contemporary Indigeneity: Boyden tells a personal story of inhabiting two different cultural spaces to demonstrate transnational aspects of First Nations existence; Robinson combines family stories with ethnography to bear witness to Haisla cultural survival; while Highway presents a multimodal and multilingual performance to demonstrate cultural superiority of his ancestors. My analysis of the three talks will be contextualized within the established tradition of Indigenous nonfiction and the ways in which Judith Butler’s theoretical notion of precarity, understood as unequally distributed vulnerability imposed on the disempowered, can help us understand Indigenous strategies of communicating the fragile balance between cultural loss and cultural survival.

Links

MUNI/A/1003/2017, interní kód MU

Name: Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě III (Acronym: PROVYZAN III)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. A Balancing Act : Rhetorical Strategies and Cultural Precarity in Indigenous Non-fiction. In IV International Research Workshop (VULNERA PROJECT), 21-22 June, 2018, Universidad de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 2018.

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HORÁKOVÁ, Martina. A Balancing Act : Rhetorical Strategies and Cultural Precarity in Indigenous Non-fiction. In \textit{IV International Research Workshop (VULNERA PROJECT), 21-22 June, 2018, Universidad de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife}. 2018.

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